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Bablock Hythe
Hamlet in Oxfordshire, England

Bablock Hythe

Bablock Hythe is a hamlet in Oxfordshire, England, some five miles west of Oxford city centre, and located in Northmoor parish, West Oxfordshire district.

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Cumnor and Appleton-with-Eaton parishes in Vale of White Horse district are on the other side of the River Thames. There was a ferry across the Thames at Bablock Hythe from the 13th century. The hand-propelled cable ferry was said to be the first along the river and was still in use for cars and other road vehicles up until 1959.

How locals move

Getting around Bablock Hythe the local way

  • Get inOxford Airport (OXF) at Kidlington is used mainly for private and charter aircraft and has only intermittently had scheduled airline flights; it is useful only if you fly your own plane, or are able to charter a small aircraft.

From Wikivoyage: Oxfordshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-07.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rijksmuseum (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.